After making consistant final table appearances and deep runs in the 180 man sit-n-gos, and always finishing 3rd at best, I finally took one down. I was a big chip leader for most of the stretch which obviously helped, but no blow up, no stupid moves, just solid play and it worked beautifully.
Once it got to heads up my opponent, who seemed quite solid prior, got very loose/passive, calling me down with a ton of very light hands, which threw me off at first. I handed him a couple bets in the first few rounds adjusting to his tendency to "not believe" my bets. I picked up a few hands heads up, but didn't get a ton of action until the hand that locked it up for me. I made a Jack-high flush on the river and got him to call off almost all of his stack with two pair. After that, he only had about 11k to my over 200k, and it was academic after that, my J-6 beat his K-5 to put it in the books for me.
I definately needed to book a win to prove to myself that I can win these things. I had shown myself that I could make consistant deep runs, but was starting to get frustrated always coming 5th, or 3rd, etc. Finally, I got my first win under my belt, and the rest should come a lot easier now ;o)
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